# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第七十八条 (Article 78) - Law: 厚生年金保険法 (Employees' Pension Insurance Act), 昭和二十九年法律第百十五号 - English title "Employees' Pension Insurance Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第七十八条 (Article 78) — address `art-78` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第七十八条 art-78 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78 **第一項** 受給権者が、正当な理由がなくて、第九十八条第三項の規定による届出をせず、又は書類その他の物件を提出しないときは、保険給付の支払を一時差し止めることができる。 art-78/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78/par-1 If a beneficiary fails to make a notification or submit documents or other items under the provisions of Article 98, paragraph (3), without reasonable grounds, the payment of the insurance benefits may be suspended temporary ly. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第二号厚生年金被保険者期間、第三号厚生年金被保険者期間又は第四号厚生年金被保険者期間に基づく保険給付については、前項の規定は、適用しない。 art-78/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78/par-2 The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not apply to insurance benefits based on the category II EPI insured period, category III EPI insured period, or category IV EPI insured period. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-78/par-1: 第九十八条第三項 → 厚生年金保険法 第九十八条第三項 (Article 98, paragraph (3)), art-98/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-98/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-98/par-3 - art-78/par-2: 前項 → 厚生年金保険法 第七十八条第一項 (Article 78, paragraph (1)), art-78/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 第七十八条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 第百条の十第一項第二十四号（機構への事務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-100-10/par-1/item-24 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-100-10/par-1/item-24 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 厚生年金保険法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/329AC0000000115/20261001_507AC0000000074), retrieved 2026-10-13 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Employees' Pension Insurance Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3554/tb), retrieved 2026-10-13 - This site's parser, version 190 — 厚生年金保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13